{"id":497,"date":"2011-12-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2011\/12\/21\/farewell-to-bike-port\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:00:00","slug":"farewell-to-bike-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/21\/farewell-to-bike-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Bike Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-qspsgTi5hJ4\/Tu_fBIJh_AI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/MOxIfGA1-JM\/s1600\/BikePort_logo_web_200.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-qspsgTi5hJ4\/Tu_fBIJh_AI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/MOxIfGA1-JM\/s1600\/BikePort_logo_web_200.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After serving the Seattle bicycle community for eight years, Bike Port will close its doors at the end of December.\u00a0 The facility first opened its doors in Pioneer Square in May 2003 and provided 24\/7 secure bike parking and an in-house bicycle repair shop.\u00a0 The Bicycle Alliance has managed the Bike Port facility since 2005 through a partnership with King County Metro, the City of Seattle, and Sound Transit.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As buildings in the downtown area created their own bike parking, the need for Bike Port services has declined.\u00a0 Bike Port will be missed by those individuals who still need secure bike parking in the Pioneer Square area and we hope that on-demand bike lockers will be available in the future.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The bike shop located in Bike Port is changing ownership and will remain in the Pioneer Square neighborhood.\u00a0 Ben Rainbow, the current manager of the JRA Bike Shop housed in Bike Port, is opening Back Alley Bike Repair in February.\u00a0 The shop will be located at 116 First Avenue S, with an entrance from the alley.\u00a0 Check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Back-Alley-Bike-Repair\/183472648414870?sk=wall\">Back Alley\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> for more details.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving the Seattle bicycle community for eight years, Bike Port will close its doors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[57,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-parking","category-wa-bikes-news","category-seattle-king-county-wa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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